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Tyrants attract greater tyrants. It's impossible for me to care about a bunch of self-aggrandizing assholes who sell their daughters and beat their wives.
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Reading this because I bought it for my younger sister.
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3/5 meh stars.
Am I just an idiot who doesn't get colonialism? Probably. Am I someone who picked this up thinking it could be informative? Yes. Am I someone who expected maybe just maybe a little bit more? I think you see where this is going.
The characters were (if they're real, I do so apologize ever so slightly) underdeveloped but, I stuck through and then it ended.
The "colonialism" and evangelism did not start un ...more
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3/5 meh stars.
Am I just an idiot who doesn't get colonialism? Probably. Am I someone who picked this up thinking it could be informative? Yes. Am I someone who expected maybe just maybe a little bit more? I think you see where this is going.
The characters were (if they're real, I do so apologize ever so slightly) underdeveloped but, I stuck through and then it ended.
The "colonialism" and evangelism did not start un ...more
Well written but a bit unbalanced, and as a white person I couldn´t cope with the brutal masculinity of a different (and past) culture.
2.75 stars
Some parts were interesting but sometimes I had trouble staying focused.
Some parts were interesting but sometimes I had trouble staying focused.
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